Last year we had hoped to visit our friend, Kathy, at her home in Lafayette, CA, but we realized that it was a bit further than we could travel. This year we made a visit to her home a priority ... After all the years of hiking together in Tucson and traveling together to various meetings around the world, we had heard many stories of her life, her home, wild turkeys, grazing deer, untended pear orchard, reservoir lake ... It was time to see it for ourselves.
Fortunately, no pictures were taken of the operation to back Bambi into her driveway ... We had the help of her neighbors and her mother, Velma ... And, Paul succeeded in backing into the parking area without taking off the corner of her house (with inches to spare) ... No landscape lighting was injured in the course of this operation ;-)
One of the beauties of the Bay Area is the fact that flowering plants actually grow quite happily on the back patio ... Not quite the struggle to keep them alive that is part of the desert experience ...
A walk around the Lafayette Reservoir revealed the wild turkeys ...
Alas, no deer showed themselves ... We did see the untended pear orchard and reaped some of the bounty ...
Update: Kathy sent a picture of the turkeys and the deer!
1 comment:
What the hell, Kathy has become photo shy? I miss seeing her smiling face!
Strange to see larger groups of turkeys in the Bay Area than we see in WV - we delight in a pair we see infrequently. Trade you for black snakes robbing bird nests? I'd post the photo but I am technically inept... well, generally inept actually.
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